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nigger
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nigger has 1 sense
- nigger(n = noun.person) coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigra, spade - (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" is a kind of black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid
CIDE DICTIONARY
nigger, n.
A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation. It is usually intended and interpreted as highly insulting and vulgar. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
nigger, n. offens.
1 a Black person.
2 a dark-skinned person.
1 a Black person.
2 a dark-skinned person.
Idiom
a nigger in the woodpile a hidden cause of trouble or inconvenience.
Etymology
earlier neger f. F n{egrave}gre f. Sp. negro NEGRO
THESAURUS
nigger
American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow manROGET THESAURUS
nigger
Blackness
N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning, blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.
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